Financial Analyst
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Department: Operations
Salary range: 35000-50000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Entry level
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Accounting/Auditing

Company profile:
Young &amp; Shand is a full service digital agency that loves a challenge.We’ve made a name for ourselves by creating engaging digital content and leveraging new marketing technology to help NZ businesses grow. We consistently get results with a performance based approach and by ensuring the content we create gets people talking. This has helped us become the country’s fastest growing independent digital agency.How we workOur Auckland office has a full production team, Creative Director, three creative teams, six digital designers and a full development team. As a client, you’ll also have a senior Account Director and an experienced Account Manager working with you day to day and at a strategic level. To ensure everything gets done, we also have our own dedicated team offshore that allows us to work 24 hours a day.Perhaps more important than our production capability is our strategic and creative thinking. Without great thinking you’re only going to get average results. And average is not good enough - we’re only interested in doing world class work that drives results for our clients. That’s why we’ve invested in Ben becoming a New Yorker for 12 months. He’s there to understand what’s happening at the cutting edge of marketing technology so we’re up there with the best.Our environmentLast but not least, we’re a young ambitious company that’s not afraid of hard work. We have a young team that's smart and eager to learn and test the limits of what's possible. We have a real collaborative approach and work together to achieve great results. 

Job description:
The Financial Analyst is a new role. Up until now the role has been managed by the Managing Director and a part time Book Keeper.  We’re looking for an accountant with a couple of years experience that wants to be part of a dynamic growing business. The core responsibilities of the role will be managing the companies accounts, working with the production team on pricing and job costing, and working with the media team to manage media billings and payments.  We use Xero which means the administration side of the jobs is straight forward and easy. There is work to be done to streamline our accounts payable/receivable processes. But there is lots of upside to improve our job costing and profit through better management of job costs. That’s the exciting part - getting to work with a tight team and focus on making a difference.Key responsibilities Reconciling accountsProcessing Accounts Payable invoicesDriving Invoicing Process (account managers do invoices)Pricing/Job Costing reportsMedia invoice managementDriving process improvementsReporting

Requirements:
Accounting Degree2-4 years accounting experienceExperience with XeroSmart Energetic OutgoingKeen to make a difference (learn new things - google analytics, media etc)

Benefits:
Working with like minded people wanting to produce excellent workGreat office space located in the heart of Britomart, AucklandFully stocked beer and wine fridgeAs much Pizza as you can eat on Fridays